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        <description>Population and Health InfoShare : Newest 15 Documents by Population Council/FRONTIERS. Sharing Knowledge to Improve Public Health Worldwide</description>
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            <title>Expanding Access to Vasectomy Services in the Ministry of Health of Guatemala</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4741_Guatemala_Vasectomy_Final_Report_No._124.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Expanding Access to Vasectomy Services in the Ministry of Health of Guatemala]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:17:55 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Strengthening Financial Sustainability through Integration of Voluntary Counseling and Testing ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Strengthening Financial Sustainability through Integration of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services with Other Reproductive Health Services (India)]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:15:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Effect of Introducing an \'Afternoon Pay Clinic\' on Service Utilization and Cost Recovery (Nepal)</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4739_Nepal_NFCC_Final_Report_Number_126.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Effect of Introducing an 'Afternoon Pay Clinic' on Service Utilization and Cost Recovery (Nepal)]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:09:49 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>OR Summary 62: RH Curriculum Enhances Vocational Students’ Knowledge and Behavior</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4738_OR_Sum_62_Bangladesh_Youth.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[OR Summary 62: RH Curriculum Enhances Vocational Students’ Knowledge and Behavior]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>OR Summary 60: Mobilize Health Care Providers to Advocate Against FGM/C</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[FGM/C has become increasingly medicalized in Kenya’s Abagusii community. However,  providers express willingness to advocate against the practice. Interventions to mobilize providers must address not only their financial motivation for providing the service, but also their understanding of the human rights and health consequences of the practice.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:23:36 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>OR Summary 59: Begin Community Dialogue on FGM/C by Discussing Cultural Justification</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Female genital cutting is strongly supported among the Somali community, and the severest form is primarily practiced. Efforts to encourage abandonment should begin with community discussion about the socio-cultural reasons for cutting. Simultaneously, health care providers need training in how to manage the complications of FGM/C.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:17:31 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>South Africa Male Involvement, OR Summary 58</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4223_OR_Sum_58_South_African_Male_Involvement.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[South Africa: Antenatal Couples Counseling Is Feasible but Challenging]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:07:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ghana Safe Motherhood: OR Summary No. 57</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4222_OR_Sum_57_Ghana_Safe_Motherhood.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ghana: Combine learning approaches to improve maternal care.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Kazakhstan Contraception: FRONTIERS OR Summary</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4221_OR_sum_56_Kazakhstan_Contraception.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Kazakhstan: Promote LAM for postpartum family planning and birth spacing]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Cost analysis of reproductive heath services in PCEA Chogoria Hospital, Kenya</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4220_FRONTIERS_final_report_No._116_Kenya_PCEA_Chogoria.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) Chogoria Hospital is a faith based non-governmental organization providing a wide range of healthcare services. The organization faces a number of challenges related to sustainability: declining donor support (especially for reproductive health services), low cost recovery levels, and increasing poverty levels among its clientele. In response to these concerns, a team from Chogoria Hospital attended a one-week workshop held in Ghana on financial sustainability and developed a small scale operations research project to determine the cost of providing a selected number of reproductive health (RH) services and to evaluate their cost recovery levels. The results of this assessment will guide the management in the setting of appropriate prices for RH services in the hospital.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:37:56 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Face-to-face complementary selling of health products in Ghana</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4219_Frontiers_final_report_118_GSMF_financial_sustainability.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The study attempted to increase the sustainability of the Ghana Social
Marketing Foundation (GSMF), one of the country’s largest suppliers of contraceptives.
GSMF sells some products at market or near market prices to pharmacies and a licensed chemical sellers network (CAREshops), and uses the margin to subsidize condoms and oral contraceptive sales. To increase the sales of its for-profit products, the organization tested complementary selling – asking customers if they would like to purchase a second product to go along with the original purchase (the recommended product is always a logical and useful addition to the index product).]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:35:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Cost of reproductive health services provided by four CHAG hospitals</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4218_Ghana_CHAG_Final_Report_119.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) is a large faith-based NGO which currently serves an estimated 35 percent of the Ghanaian population, mainly in remote rural areas. CHAG’s financial sustainability is threatened due to declining donations from missionary groups and donor agencies, uncertain support from government, and low cost recovery in member facilities. Although knowledge of costs is essential to program management, CHAG members had no information on the costs of the services they provided. Thus, CHAG had no economic benchmarks for evaluating efforts to control costs, no denominator for calculating cost recovery for different services, and no empirical data on service costs that could be used to approach donors and the Ghanaian government with requests for funding.
This study built capacity within the CHAG secretariat to calculate the economic cost and cost recovery levels of selected reproductive health services in four CHAG-affiliated hospitals. Techniques learned in the study are applicable to most costing problems, not just to reproductive health.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:24:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Acceptability and Sustainability of the WHO Focused Antenatal Care package in Kenya</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[To promote the health and survival of mothers and babies, Kenya has adapted the WHO goal-oriented Antenatal Care (ANC) package, popularly known as focused ANC (FANC). The Ministry of Health (MOH) has designed new guidelines for ANC services, placing emphasis on refocusing antenatal care, birth planning and emergency preparedness, and the identification, prevention and management of life threatening complications during pregnancy and childbirth. ANC visits are now used as an entry point for a range of other services, thus promoting comprehensive integrated service delivery. A major challenge, however, is whether the Kenyan health care system can cope with the implementation of this package. The objectives of this study were to assess the MOH’ s capacity to adapt focused ANC at the service delivery level so that it can be sustained, and to examine the extent to which adaptation of the package has increased coverage and quality of key ANC services and the overall quality of care received by pregnant women.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:21:20 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Cost of Training Programs and Willingness to Pay for Training: An Application of Break-Even ...</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4216_FRONTIERS_final_report_No._115_Uganda_TASO_Sustainability_June_11_2006.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) provides care and support to persons living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. The organization also has developed a large number of training courses related to AIDS care and counseling that are offered to local and regional organizations. TASO is dependent on donors for 95 percent of its budget and wished to develop alternative funding sources. The training centre was seen as a potential revenue center. To explore alternatives for increasing the sustainability of the training center, a team from TASO attended a one-week workshop on financial sustainability and developed an operations research study to determine ways in which the training center could increase its revenues and reduce costs.
The purpose of the OR study was to determine the break-even points for the courses offered by the training center and estimate prices and numbers of participants necessary to ensure the profitable operation of the center.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:17:19 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Operations Research to Improve Financial Sustainability in Three Bolivian NGOs</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/4215_FRONTIERS_final_report_No._117_Bolivia_Financial_Sustainability.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many NGOs providing reproductive health (RH) services are facing reductions in donor funding, requiring them to generate more of their own resources. Prosalud, CIES and APSAR, Bolivian NGOs, wanted to build skills in costing and market research to support efforts to improve financial sustainability. Staffs attended a one-week workshop, followed by implementation of three operations research (OR) studies designed to reinforce skills and generate information for decisionmaking.]]></description>
            <author>scampbell@pcdc.org (Population Council/FRONTIERS)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:54:25 +0100</pubDate>
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